Dotnext has brought us Ten Squared where the meat of the game is the puzzle solving. Basically you’ll first encounter a square with 5×5 boxes in it. You must essentially first pick any of the box to start-off and make your way through to fill every remaining box. That sounded easy, but it will definitely tease your wits.

There are two game modes, the first one is Bridge Move mode where you can only move 3 boxes horizontally and vertically; or 2 boxes diagonally from starting point. The second mode is Knight Move mode. You still have the same objective like the previous mode but the movement is now like the knight’s move in chess which is L-shaped.

Puzzles range in difficulty as you unlock more levels and the boxes grow from 5×5 for up to 10×10 in dimension. There is also a timer running to put the pressure on to complete the level as fast as you can. The main problem here is the difficulty is very hard. You’ll have to employ trial and error in this game, so it can be pretty frustrating sometimes. The game keeps track of our top 10 records for each game mode but this would be great if you can compare it to others to see how you rank up. An online leaderboards will surely make this an even greater game. But no worries as the developer will surely bring it on a future update, so stay tuned!

The look and presentation of Ten Squared is top-notch. It’s very simple and adds little touches like hand-written texts, watercolor and pencil color effects, some kiddie sketches/paints on the background, tapping an eraser within the game to undo a move many others. Subtle touches like these brings a big polish to the overall quality to the game. Music-wise, although it has no soothing background music, it enables you to play your own music from your iPod. But still, it doesn’t hurt to have its own soundtrack.

Ten Squared is a great puzzle game which focuses on mindbender puzzle for the challenge. Puzzle-lovers will definitely have fun, but might put off others because of the degree in difficulty. Still, it’s undeniably fun with a great style which will surely bring our brains on.